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Two USGS Partnership Publications Win National Awards
The U.S. Geological Survey's National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC) in Lafayette,
LA, was a partner in producing two publications that have won national awards in the
National Association of Government Communicators' Blue Pencil Competition. The awards
will be presented at the Association's annual Conference and Communications School in
Denver, to be held March 7th-10th. The Center has also produced three First-Place and
two Second-Place winners in previous Blue Pencil competitions.
The two-volume Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources received a
Second-Place award in the "soft-cover books" category. The work had previously been
named one of the dozen most notable Federal publications of 2000 by the American Library
Association. The book has been widely reviewed and favorably commented on in publications
such as the Smithsonian Magazine, Science News, California Coast and Ocean, The Washington
Post, and Wetlands. The 1,000-page book presents a large-scale assessment of the health
of the Nation's plants, animals, and ecosystems that could be used by managers,
scientists, policymakers, and the general public. Almost 200 authors from the USGS
and other agencies and universities contributed to the work. The team producing the
work included USGS Inventory and Monitoring Program scientists (concept development
and oversight); Bureau of Land Management (design and layout); the former National
Biological Service (initial editing); USGS National Wetlands Research Center (rewriting
and final editing); and the USGS Cartography and Publishing Program (printing management).
"Paradise Lost? The Coastal Prairie of Louisiana" won Second Place in the "shoestring
budget" category. The 40-page brochure, suitable for slipping into a pocket, was
written and produced by a partnership of USGS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and
university scientists as well as USGS editorial and FWS graphics staffs. Staff at the
USFWS National Wildlife Refuge realized the general public knew little of how
beautiful, fragile and rare the coastal prairie is, and thus secured a grant to
print the brochure for refuge visitors. The booklet features a brief overview of
the coastal prairie and contains hundreds of colored pictures identifying the region's
plants and animals. The grant contained only enough money to print the brochure, so
all the agencies and universities involved donated their time and expertise on the
award winner.
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March 2001
in this issue:
cover story:
Natural Hydrocarbons in Gulf of Alaska
Black History Month
Glacial Floods Video
Coastal Marsh Die-Back in Gulf of Mexico
Carbonate Beaches 2000
USGS Information: Electronic Age
CMG Program Webmasters
Leaky Coastal Margins / Karst Interest Group
Nat'l Sand & Gravel
Ordnance Mine Burial
Monterey Bay
Partnership Publications
Earthquake Hazards Video
March Publications List
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U. S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey
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